I’m one of those people who, despite living a busy life and trying to live in the moment as much as possible, also enjoys looking ahead to anything and everything that is exciting on the calendar. With lots already on our calendar between now and the end of this year, its hard to not be excited about what lies ahead. Some of my current countdowns include:

1. 8 days until my next race – Next Saturday morning I’ll be running my fifth Jaguar 5k, which is an annual athletics fundraiser for the first school that I taught at. Its always great to go back and see old coworkers on race day.

My current 5k PR is from last year’s Jaguar 5k. I loved being able to celebrate post race with a slice of pizza!

2. 43 days until ZOOMA Annapolis – Its hard to believe that my spring goal race is right around the corner. Tomorrow I have 10.5 miles on my training plan, which will not only be my first double digit run but also my longest run since back in the fall. (And remember, if you’re interested in joining me for ZOOMA Annapolis, or you want to run ZOOMA Cape Cod or ZOOMA Florida you can use discount code KATHRYN16 to save 10% off of your race registration.)

3. 63 days until the end of the school year – Today marks the end of my fourth week back at work from maternity leave, and the end of little man’s second week at daycare. I can’t wait for the end of the school year so that I can be back home with him and we can enjoy a fun filled summer together.

4. 113 days until we leave for Disney World – We’re beyond excited for our week long family vacation at Disney in mid-August with Preston’s side of the family and to take little man to Disney for the first time.

The last time we were at Disney World was for our gender reveal last August. We can’t wait to take little man with us for his first trip there!

5. 198 days until Wine and Dine Half Marathon – We’ll be returning to Disney in November for Wine and Dine Half Marathon weekend. After runDisney announced the lineup of changes to this year’s race weekend, we decided to upgrade my registration to allow me to run the new Lumiere Two Course Challenge (10k and half marathon). Race registration coincided with my birthday, so it was a nice birthday treat from Preston for him to register me for the challenge. I’m excited to finally be running this race after deferring last year’s registration, and am just as excited for little man to participate in the diaper dash.

I can’t believe how fast this year is going! Literally it seems like we just got back from marathon weekend in January!
I’m definitely looking forward to the end of school, summer vacation, wine n dine weekend and everything in between. On one hand I am excited for wine n dine but on the other hand I don’t want November to get here too quickly!
I am excited for you for all the fun things you have planned and spending more time with your boy!

zoom is going to be such fun! that’s the start of my marathon training so i switched to the 10k because i don’t need to run a half on the first week of marathon training but i’m so excited for the event!

Counting down to one of my closest friends’ bridal showers (8 days), a trip to Maine with my boyfriend (13 days to go!), Memorial Day weekend in Connecticut with my family (35 days), and her actual wedding (57 days). Don’t even get me started on the rest of the summer!

OMG! I’m beyond excited for you to go to Disney! What am I counting down for? Well, this one is not that exciting. My baby’s first day at a daycare is on June 13th. It makes me very emotional because I don’t want her to feel that I’m abandoning her but at the same time I know that she’ll have there so much fun (maybe not right away, but eventually)!

I’m counting down until the end of school (20 more school days!!!), my birthday (44 days) the Peachtree Road Race (72 days), and Lumiere’s two-course challenge!! My daughter will be doing the kids race, too 😉